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<h1>About AlphabDraw</h1>
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  AlphabDraw is a multi-user application in which users add text to a canvas area. 
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AlphabDraw has similarities to chat and drawing applications. 
A user can draw with their words, perhaps adding meaning to the words, that would not otherwise be possible in a standard chat application.
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The user is presented with a canvas area, a feedback area and controls. 
In the text box, the user will type in the text that is displayed on the canvas area.
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Once the user adds text it is displayed onto the canvases of the other users logged onto the application. The feedback area indicates how many users are online at the time as well as any 
number of relevant messages.
The color and font picker tools enable the user to easily select a color or font for the text that appears on the canvas.
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This application has been written in <a target="new" href="http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/">The Google&reg; Web Toolkit</a>. 
It uses a number of modules from which it gets functionality.
The main module it derives functionality from is the <a target="new" href="http://code.google.com/p/gwt-mosaic/">gwt-mosaic module</a>.
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The concept, overall layout, color picker and font picker was designed and implemented by Jose Collas (Goatstone). The floating window that this text is displayed in is from the Mosaic toolkit.
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The code is hosted at Google open hosting ant it is there you will find all the source code: <a target="new" href="http://code.google.com/p/alphabdraw/">http://code.google.com/p/alphabdraw/ (alphabDraw)</a>
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9.21.2009
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Joes Collas, Goatstone
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